Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Scottish Naval and Military Academy Prize Medal attributed to Colonel T. Cadell, V.C., C.B., 2nd Bengal European Fusiliers

Silver Prize Medal, obverse with St Andrew’s cross, ‘Scottish Naval and Military Academy’, reverse inscribed ‘General Merit 1st Session, 2nd Prize, Mr Thos. Cadell, 22nd July 1853’, Scottish hallmarks, 42mm., with straight swivelling suspension and ornate bar, obverse inscribed ‘Junr. Mathematics’, reverse inscribed ‘Mr Thos. Cadell, 1st Prize, 22nd July 1853’, good very fine £200-250

V.C. London Gazette 29 April 1862. ‘For having, on the 12th June, 1857, at the flagstaff picquet at Delhi, when the whole of the picquet of Her Majesty’s 75th Regiment and 2nd European Bengal Fusiliers were driven in by a large body of the enemy, brought in from amongst the enemy a wounded bugler of his own regiment, under a most severe fire, who would otherwise have been cut up by the rebels. Also, on the same day, when the Fusiliers were retiring, by order, on Metcalfe’s house, on it being reported that there was a wounded man left behind, Lieutenant Cadell went back of his own accord towards the enemy, accompanied by three men, and brought in a man of the 75th Regiment, who was severely wounded, under a most heavy fire from the advancing enemy’.

Colonel Thomas Cadell was born in Cockenzie, East Lothian, Scotland on 5 September 1835. His cousin, S. H. Lawrence, 32nd Regiment also gained the award of the V.C. during the Indian Mutiny.